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Hardware store, Tullamarine, Victoria
This complex consciously displays a diversity of different timber based products, structural forms and jointing techniques. Solid timber is used in bolted columns, framing and trusses and plywood in diaphragms, shear walls and external cladding.
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Drying shelter, Narangba, Queensland
The building is a simple gabled roof shelter with CCA treated slash pine poles cantilevered out of the ground to support a roof of longitudinal plywood box beams and transverse glue laminated pine trusses
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Store building, Mt. Gambier, SA
. Economy governed much of the design for timber industrial buildings such as this. However, the confidence and technical skill in its design, the assured detailing and the fine 2:1 width to height proportion of this simple form endow this building with a strength and scale uncommon ifor buildings of this type..
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Store building, Clayton, Victoria
In the Clayton building, the columns and rafters are box sections that house between each other at the main moment joints. The regular lines of deep plywood purlins, set between the portals, establish rhythms in the roof and soften the light from the strips of translucent roof sheet.
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Store Building, Cardiff
The Cardiff building is the longest clean span timber portal building in Australia.
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Olympic Viewing Pavilion, Homebush, NSW
This project showed just what is possible in a very short time frame working with knowledge within the parameters of a largely timber structure. The roof utilises multi pinned stainless steel dowel connections.
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Launceston Swim Centre, Glen Dhu, Tasmania
The use of timber to replace the original steel design of this swimming centre resulted in a much more economic and aesthetically pleasing building.
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Factory Building, Legana, Tasmania
Externally, this building looks little different to the thousands of portal factory and store buildings found in any of Australia's industrial estates. However, it is a timber building, even though it was originally designed as a steel one.
The cause of the change was cost. The timber portal came in about $5,000 cheaper than the steel alternative and the builder could erect structure with his own carpentry team.
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